If SMUD's annexation plan for Yolo County is approved, the municipal utility district's customers stand to save between $165 million and $380 million over 20 years, according to a consultant hired to evaluate the district's proposed expansion.

"It's a win-win for Yolo and (existing) SMUD ratepayers," said Peter Brundage, executive director of the Sacramento County Local Agency Formation Commission, which funded the consultant's report.

If SMUD's proposed annexation into Yolo County is ultimately approved, the municipal utility district's customers stand to save between $165 million and $380 million over 20 years, according to a consultant hired to evaluate the district's proposed expansion.

Pact eases burden of SMUD shift
By Beth Curda/Enterprise staff writer
A favorite argument of those who want Davis residents and businesses to leave Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and become customers of a neighboring public utility is that they would see cheaper electric bills.

SMUD ranks first in California and fifth in the nation for overall commercial customer
satisfaction, according to the 2006 J.D. Power and Associates study.

Elections officials suspect "some instances of fraudulent signatures" in the petitions filed to force a June vote among SMUD customers on whether the public-power utility should expand into Yolo County.

After evaluating a sample of signatures from a Pacific Gas & Electric-sponsored petition drive,
the Sacramento County Registrar's office said this week that it will submit the petitions to the
Secretary of State's Fraud Division for investigation.

Setting it straight: A story Wednesday on Metro Page B1 misidentified the political
action committee supporting the Sacramento Municipal Utility District's plan to annex
Yolo County as SMUD Customers Say Yes to Annexation. The committee is SMUD Customers Say Yes to Low Rates.

By Robert D. Dávila -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PST Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Story appeared in Metro section, Page B1

"The dispute is over the proper method to set a fair market value for PG&E's poles, lines and substations in the area the Sacramento Municipal Utility District wants to annex."

PG&E to Settle Water Contamination Suits
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , 02.04.2006, 07:00 AM
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Friday agreed to pay $295 million to settle a series of lawsuits alleging the utility sickened hundreds of people by contaminating the water in three California counties.

Court Revives $4.6B Claim Against PG&E
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , 01.10.2006, 05:10 PM
A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for California to seek $4.6 billion that the state's attorney general alleges was illegally transferred from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to its corporate parent before the power utility's 2001 bankruptcy.

PG&E Executives
Compensation Compared... Top Executives compensation in 2003 is 16
times more than what it was in 1998,That is an annual growth rate of 174.5%. During that time these same
executives drove the company into bankruptcy!

Cities of Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento and Yolo County receive over $1.9 million

“PG&E’s payment of franchise fees, property taxes, and other taxes and fees provide a stable revenue source to support the many important services – police and fire protection, education, public health, and environmental services
"

PG&E Ad: "Half a Billion? Go ahead, ask them."

R.W. Beck found that PG&E's poles and wires are worth from $65 million to $108 million (under $1,500 per customer) rather than the ridiculous PG&E figure of $500 million, which PG&E reps were unable to support under cross-examination by our City Council.

On Wednesday April 6th SMUD staff
reported to the Strategic Planning Committee of the SMUD Board of Directors
regarding the request for annexation by areas of Yolo county. The staff
recommendation was to proceed with annexation. There are substantial benefits to
ratepayers on both sides of the river.

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